Painting metals and metal products for the trade · Iowa

RIE Coatings, LLC Dubuque

Dubuque, IA · ~27 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

RIE Coatings, LLC Dubuque runs at 130% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Painting metals and metal products for the trade workplace, earning a grade D.

RIE Coatings, LLC Dubuque: 4.3 TCR = 130% of Painting metals and metal products for the trade BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

RIE Coatings, LLC Dubuque safety composite

RIE Coatings, LLC Dubuque scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 44%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

C

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

TCR Δ

−8.6

2023→2024

RIE Coatings, LLC Dubuque injury rate improved

RIE Coatings, LLC Dubuque's TCR fell 8.6 from 8.6 in 2023 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 8.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=8.6 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332812 · Dubuque, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 130% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/11
  • PHOTO AZZ Surface Technolo…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: AZZ Surface Technologies - Terrell LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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RIE Coatings, LLC Dubuque in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows RIE Coatings, LLC Dubuque averages 4.3 TCR (130% of the Painting metals and metal products for the trade BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

RIE Coatings, LLC Dubuque TCR series: 2023=8.6 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where RIE Coatings, LLC Dubuque falls in its industry

646 Painting metals and metal prod establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 11 Painting metals and metal prod employers in Iowa.

RIE Coatings, LLC Dubuque (27 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate RIE Coatings, LLC Dubuque
RIE Coatings, LLC Dubuque (27 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9

RIE Coatings, LLC Dubuque has fewer employees than the Painting metals and metal products for t median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 8.6 4.3 1 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332812 · IA · Dubuque

646 Painting metals and metal products for the trade employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 217 employers in Dubuque, IA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR AZZ Surface Technologies - Terrell LLC 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 52nd Paint Central 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jupiter Coil Coating BB 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lebanon, TN - MK Plant 12 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE 2520-Storm Lake, IA (Monsanto Co.) 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wastewater Treatment Plant 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Quality Construction Services, Inc. 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Weitz Company - Mission Critical - Microsoft DSM 14 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR John Deere Dubuque Works 2,518 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Medical Center-Dubuque-MHS-IA/NE 1,296 FTE
CITY-NEAR MercyOne Dubuque 1,285 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hirschbach Motor Lines, Inc 1,110 FTE
NAT-TCR Bristol Manufacturing Corporation 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Greensboro Auto Auction, Inc 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Liberty Pumps 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Redner's Warehouse Market Hamburg 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Edwardsburg Public Schools Transportation 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Asf 420 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE J. Lewis Small Company Inc. 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Asf 407 27 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2024, 2023. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.